Uninsured Stuck With Bigger Medical Bills

If you are one of the 47 million Americans that have joined the ranks of the uninsured, what you may not know is that you may have to pay more for your medical treatment than your privately insured counterparts.  When individuals without insurance get sick, they...

Health Insurance Scams Claim Many Victims

In today's fast paced world, business owners don't often have the time to thoroughly check out the companies they rely on to provide goods and services. In many cases, a determination of product/service quality can be made at the time goods are delivered or services are...

Medicaid Expansion and Fiscal Responsibility

I have been an insurance broker in the state of Illinois for the past 15 years and I have seen first hand what happens when an over burdened, tax funded, Government controlled, entitlement program like Medicaid is offered to those with incomes well into the middle class....

Will Liberals Stand for Isolation and Quarantine?

Experts at the Centers for Disease Control address the subject of voluntary or involuntary placement of individuals in isolation or quarantine this way: "To contain the spread of a contagious illness, public health authorities rely on many strategies. Two of these strategies...

Death of Chinese woman in Russia, conflicting reports about cause

It still remains unclear whether the Chinese woman who died on Wednesday on the train bound for Moscow from the Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk (near the Chinese border) has died from the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) or some other infectious agent. SARS is an...

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: February 22-28 2009

The National Eating Disorders group in the US created an awareness week which takes place during the last week of February each year in the hopes to prevent eating disorders and unhealthy body image, and to eliminate...

Cancer Stricken Patrick Swayze Stops Treatment

Cancer stricken Patrick Swayze has reportedly given up all medical treatment, after doctors told him there was little they could do to stop the progress of his illness. Fifty-six year old Swayze was diagnosed a...

Some Peanut Products Are Poison. Recalls In USA Continue Daily.

UPDATED March 20, 2009  LIST OF RECALLS.************************************ Since there are still daily recalled products continuing daily and are too many to post here, please go to the FDA website link...

Pelicans Mysteriously Falling from West Coast Sky

Hundreds of pelicans have been falling from the sky on the west coast of the United States - literally. Some have crashed into cars and boats, while others are found miles inland and some are even run over on the...

2.4m miss work as flu epidemic bites

The first Monday of 2009 proved to be the day that in the UK more people than ever called in sick. 2.4 million people called in sick and most of those reported having flu or cold symptoms. "A RECORD 2.4million...

Kim Jong-Il makes public appearance, dispels rumours of illness

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has dispelled rumours of his alleged illness by making a public appearance at a concert. It was suspected Kim Jong-Il suffered a stroke in August of this year, which sparked...

Vancouver Homeless Death toll at 2

We all read this morning about Tracey, the homeless woman who burned to death last night when trying to warm herself over a candle. I am now posting this via David Eby's blog, about the fact that there was another...

Tide of Obesity Continues

Despite concerted efforts in the classroom and through the media childhood obesity in the UK continues to grow with almost a quarter overweight when they enter primary school and a third are too fat when they leave...

Are Americans Just Too Chronically Ill?

Are Americans simply too healthy to be sick than any other people in other countries in the world, or they simply have more access to a better health care system? If they are just too healthy, then why are there...

10-Pound Hairball Pulled From Girl's Stomach

"An 11-year-old girl in Mumbai, India, was hospitalized with pain in her stomach, and surgeons were forced to operate. What they found was a foot-long hairball. The mass of hair -- known as a trichobozear - -is a...

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